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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Beginnings: Arrival and Meeting Miss Winter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first question Margaret asks Vida WInter?
(a) An explanation about the rumor that her house is haunted.
(b) Whether Winter is terminally ill and fears death will end her life soon.
(c) Her real name.
(d) What happened to the (missing) thirteenth story in her first book.

2. In their first interview, Winter reveals to Margaret a painful bit of her history earlier than she wanted to.
(a) Her father was mentally ill and commited suicide.
(b) At age 16, she experienced a massive fire.
(c) She had a child out of wedlock who died at age three.
(d) She had eloped with a disreputable man; he left her after only seven months of marriage.

3. What promise does Margaret ask of Winter before committing to the writing of her biography?
(a) Winter must tell Margaret three facts that can be validated in public record.
(b) Winter must let them write outside in the garden, in the flowers.
(c) Margaret must be allowed to have freedom to come and go from the house.
(d) Winter must be willing to offer editing and writing advice for Margaret's own writing.

4. What is peculiar about the way Margaret must read "The Thirteen Tales?'
(a) Every thirteenth page, she searches for a clue to a mystery.
(b) She doesn't want anyone to see her reading it, so she disguises it.
(c) She must wear white gloves.
(d) Because of a printing error, she keeps turning it upside down.

5. What is peculiar about the many interviews given by Vida Winter?
(a) She prides herself on her honesty, despite her painful past.
(b) She has never told the truth about her life.
(c) She finds it fun to make every reporter cry.
(d) She will never speak for more than thirty minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the proof Margaret sees to prove she was a twin?

2. Margaret says, "the hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours." What does she do during these hours?

3. Margaret says of herself, "gradually, my reading became less random." What becomes the primary interest, or focus, of her reading?

4. Vida Winter is a prolific and well-known author. Besides her fame, what can be said about her physical appearance?

5. What is surprising about the appearance of the letter for Margaret?

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